Testing Medicinal Plants at Dilston Physic Garden

Would you like to volunteer for Medicinal Plant Trials?

We are investigating if plants have the effects indicated by traditional use and focus on plants for the mind, since so much of well-being depends an optimal state of mind. Rather than major multicentre trials involving objective measures, we plan to conduct small (but statistically valid) trials involving self-assessment i.e. using, as an outcome, individual subjective experience.

Such studies would involve volunteers of all ages (over 18) with normal mental health, taking a safe herbal preparation, once or twice a day for a week or two, and completing a self assessment form before and at the end of the trial period. According to best clinical practice, volunteers would be randomly divided into 2 groups, one taking the active agent and the other an inactive (placebo-like) with no one knowing which they are on (‘blind’). The results would be published in a peer reviewed scientific journal.

We would be most grateful if you would kindly complete this online questionnaire to help us design a useful and meaningful study:

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Dilston Physic Garden

Above a meandering river in a panoramic stretch of Northumberland, Dilston Physic Garden embraces the natural beauty and importance of plants for health, medicines, and the brain.

Explore this beautiful tranquil physic garden and its two acre collection of 800 European medicinal species. Learn exciting facts that could change your life on the way.